Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
CARL SAGANScience is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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